'Bones' in the Bible
Have mercy on me and be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am weak (faint, frail);Heal me, O Lord, for my bones are dismayed and anguished.
I am poured out like water,And all my bones are out of joint.My heart is like wax;It is melted [by anguish] within me.
For my life is spent with sorrowAnd my years with sighing;My strength has failed because of my iniquity,And even my body has wasted away.
When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted awayThrough my groaning all the day long.
All my bones will say, “Lord, who is like You,Who rescues the afflicted from him who is too strong for him [to resist alone],And the afflicted and the needy from him who robs him?”
There is no soundness in my flesh because of Your indignation;There is no health in my bones because of my sin.
As a crushing of my bones [with a sword], my adversaries taunt me,While they say continually to me, “Where is your God?”
Make me hear joy and gladness and be satisfied;Let the bones which You have broken rejoice.
There they were, in great terror and dread, where there had been no terror or dread;For God scattered the bones of him who besieged you;You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.
For my days have vanished in smoke,And my bones have been scorched like a hearth.
Because of the sound of my groaning [in suffering and trouble]My bones cling to my flesh.
He clothed himself with cursing as with his garment,And it seeped into his inner self like waterAnd like [anointing] oil into his bones.
As when the one plows and breaks open the ground [and the soil scatters behind him],Our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol [by the injustices of the wicked].